"I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer."

-- Richard Rodney Bennett

#Age Quotes #Nineteen Quotes #Proud Quotes

“Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.”
“If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!”
“I was listening to country at the time too, mostly because when I was a kid growing up in the country, all my friends would listen to the CMT crap and I really hated it. That would make me really angry. But when I got older I started discovering that there was actually good country music that could sort of take me back to my roots.”
“I stay out of the sunshine and away from people as much as possible.”
“Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.”
“If you are centered, you can move freely.”
“There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it.”
“When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.”

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